73 Quotes by Andrew Davies

Bleak House is a great baggy thing, the plot doesn't work in all sorts of parts, so you've got to tinker with it. Usually I tell myself, find the spine of the story and stick to that and chuck out anything not related to the spine of the story, but that doesn't work with Dickens. You lose the flavor of him if you don't include all those other extra comic characters that he couldn't stop himself from creating. The plot bulges out. It's like horrible boils or something, but in a nice way.

They also said they woke better and seemed to have a bit more energy during the day.

You can't make people do what they don't want to do,

The idea is to make a bit of a splash with this concert, to say hello in a way that introduces some very serious music but also puts together a great disparity of music with relish,

The most moving scene for me in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is the Pemberley music room scene: Elizabeth has just saved Darcy’s sister from embarrassment and confusion, and as the music plays on, Darcy’s look of gratitude becomes a look of love, which we see reciprocated in Elizabeth’s eyes.

As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, “God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death.”

You’re stuck with being yourself, so the important thing is to find people who like that.

I’m glad nobody has asked me to adapt ‘Wuthering Heights’ because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes a mess of it. I think the Bronte Sisters are mad.

The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people’s heads.